Coming up soon is also [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/496_(number)]496[/url], a perfect number. Combined with that, it's also a triangular, hexagonal, and centered nonagonal number. Truly, a very unique number. For added fun, it's binary equivilant is "111110000" .

And other than the upcoming #500, the next big thing will be 100th prime number... 541.

Damn, that was pretty quick to jump from 666 to 711. In the middle of winter yet.

I'm right now at 481... which appears to be quite possibly the most boring number ever. The only thing I can find on it is that the kingdoms of Baekje, Silla, and Daegaya form an alliance against Goguryeo in the year 481. That's about it.

Currently at 494... only two finds away from the big milestone . I've gotta quickly figure out which cache I want for the perfect number. Maybe something in the country, since I grew up there. I'll be heading to Landmark tomorrow... hmm...

Just a quick note about a number I've gotten ridiculously excited about (and no, it's not the 555 finds I'm coming up to). It's more just an interesting number I've just learned about, and have been telling people about it if I get the chance.

Although, it does make me a bit annoyed that I didn't realize it and pick anything for find number 387... although my find for that appears to have been Trans Cloutier, which was a fun cache anyway .

In either case... I just wanted to mention my recent learning of "Graham's number", which has gotten me so excitedly interested in it, that I'm literally bouncing. Literally, in my chair as I type this. If you already know about Graham's number, then you may know why I find it interesting... but more likely than not, it's just that I'm weird .

You can check Wikipedia for the calculation of it... but I like trying to describe it to people. Take for example the number 'googol', which is a 1 with a hundred zeroes after it. That in itself is more atoms than in the entire universe. Now, a googolplex is a 1 with a googol zeroes after it.

To compare THAT to Graham's number... even comparing a grain of sand to the earth... the sun... the entire universe... hell, even a trillion universes doesn't even remotely come close to doing it justice. Next to Graham's number, the number 'googolplex' is so small, it basically doesn't exist.

BUT... and here's the kicker... although there's not enough universe to even begin to show the number, the LAST digits of it CAN be calculated... the last digits being 24641985387. I can tell you that if I ever get to find 5387, I'll be all over THAT one .

And yes, I know of Friedman's finite form of Kruskal's tree theorem, but that's more of an abstract concept of calculating a number so much larger, it makes Graham's number look nonexistant. But it's just that... a calculating concept, and the integers used in relation to it are just... arbitrary numbers (yes, I realize the irony), whereas Graham's number is a named, defined number. I dunno... it's just different in my eyes.

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